Overview
- Christian and Gael, both 17 and students at UAEM’s Preparatoria No. 2, were found dead after an attack in the Colonia Chulavista neighborhood of Cuernavaca and their bodies were returned to family members.
- The Fiscalía General del Estado de Morelos said prosecutors and forensic teams carried out initial on-scene diligencias and that it will pursue all lines of investigation into the killings.
- UAEM leaders, the student group Resistencia Estudiantil and La Red por los Derechos de la Infancia en México called for prompt, diligent probes that center children’s rights and warned against criminalizing students in official responses.
- Federal and state officials have opened coordination talks after the deaths, with the president asking the interior ministry to liaise with Morelos authorities and the governor promising stepped-up security around the university.
- The killings add to a pattern of lethal attacks affecting UAEM students this year, including a recent exchange-student murder that led to an arrest, and have sparked campus vigils and protests that increase pressure for clearer security and investigative reforms.